Pakku is a pacman wrapper with additional features, such as AUR support.
Pakku is the creation of kitsunyan who is busy creating new projects at present, so, for now at least:
pakku is maintained by Pakku users and the Nim community. If you encounter issues with Pakku please open an issue here. Pull requests for improvements or bug fixes are welcomed!
Basically, Pakku supports the following features:
In other words, it does the same things any AUR helper is capable of.
The following principles were the basis of the program:
--asdeps
, --needed
, etc)pakku -S --build linux linux-headers
pakku -Qdttt
$ git clone https://aur.archlinux.org/pakku.git
$ cd pakku
$ makepkg -si
For more advanced build options check the wiki!
sudo
or doas
, check the PreferredSudoCommand
configuration option.pakku(8)
and pakku.conf(5)
man pages to read the
full list of features!Pakku should work with Arch based distros although some minor aspects may not, unless distro specific support is included:
pakku -Sz
will only work with AUR packagespakku -Sn
(to build binary packages from source) won't work.Managing, searching and updating binary packages along with AUR packages will function correctly.